Posts tagged with 'development'

Hello
Swoon Readers,
Can
you believe it? The release of Duels & Deception is just around the corner and I’m excited for you to meet
Lydia and Robert and their best friends Cora and Cassidy—then we have Lydia’s
odd family, a Bow Street Runner, a villain or two and Shodster, Lydia’s butler.
So why this overly long listing of people you have yet to know? It ...
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, SWOONERS!!!Now that we're all (hopefully) well-rested and well-fed from the holidays, it's time to look ahead to a new batch of 365 chances to try new things and achieve long-held goals. I'm sure there are more than a few of you out there who have a New Year's resolution of finishing a novel this year (you go, you WARRIORS!), so here's ...
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How many of you have seen Moana? If you haven’t, you should go watch it immediately. Because
Lin-Manuel Miranda. The songs are absolutely amazing, and Emily and I have been
singing them over and over again for DAYS. But one song in particular really
made us realize how great Disney is about showing their character development
through song.
In the movie, Moana sings this song every time she has ...
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As a proud and prolific planner,
I’m a huge fan of character development worksheets. I dare say one of my
favorite aspects of the writing process is sitting down with a freshly printed
blank sheet and getting to know my characters. However, the questions that
really get me going are those that force me to think about my characters beyond
the basics, beyond height and hair color, beyond religion ...
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A few weeks ago, I talked about how beginnings are hard, and one of the things that
makes them so difficult is that many times, it can be hard to figure out where
the story really starts until you know where it ends. Obviously, if you’re
talking about most romance books, it ends in Happily Ever After, or at least
Happily For Now.
But it’s not enough to ...
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I’ve always said that the thing that really truly attracts me to a book – novel, any kind of media, basically – is character. As you’ll see in some of my earlier blog posts, what you really need to do is give me a character that I can fall in love with and get them on the page as soon as humanly possible.
But, the hard part of that is ...
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Characters are an essential part of the story-telling process. Whether we are cheering on a hero we want to succeed, or hating the perfect villainess, these characters are what help the story come alive to us readers. And as readers, we are drawn to strong characters that have a good story arc and an interesting background that allows us to relate to or sympathize with them. Of course character development ...
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